Eschew, you'll surely recall that Spain, France and Germany all sent troops to Afghanistan, a war explicitly over finding Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist cronies, and many of those troops bravely sacrificed their lives there. You certainly cannot accuse those nations of cowardice and a lack of determination to fight terrorism as you seem to be doing. What you are actually complaining about, as you often do, is the lack of support shown by those countries for the war in Iraq, a war fought for different reasons, that had nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden or extremist Islamic terrorists at all. Ergo, accusing the aforementioned nations of a callous disregard for human life and a pusillanimous fear of terrorism over a lack of support for Iraq is completely unfair. These bombings are a terrible tragedy, not a reason for divisive finger pointing at our allies. UPDATE: Eschew, my whole point was that those countries already ARE making a tangible commitment to fighting terrorism. Don't you think the sacrifice of their soldiers is acknowledgment enough that they're in the fight? If, as you say, your actual problem is not Iraq, but France and Germany's attitude, then how, pray tell, does their attitude manifest itself in a way that openly stymies the effort to curb international terrorism? France and Germany sacrificed lives fighting global terrorism; you cannot contest their resolve by accusing them of having an attitude problem.